I found Hunger Games to be much less nauseating when I was sitting halfway up the stadium seats than when I was in the first few rows.
I hate to break it to you, oh impotent one, but you're not the big bad anymore, you're not even the kind of naughty.
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DebetEsse - Apr 09, 2012 8:14:28 am PDT #19372 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
tommyrot - Apr 09, 2012 8:22:51 am PDT #19373 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, I never sit in the first few rows anymore--either I get there early or I'm seeing a movie that's been out for a while.
Amy - Apr 09, 2012 8:24:29 am PDT #19374 of 30000
Because books.
I wound up in the front row for the original Hitcher, and was high as a kite, too. Good times.
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2012 9:24:30 am PDT #19375 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Due to my (so-called) friends, I've fallen out of the habit of sitting in front of the walkway across the theatre. But I used to like being that close, and my eyes could deal. I currently love sitting on the first row back-not the one that's in the walkway, but the one where you can put your feet up, if you pick the right seat, on the metal bar in front of the usually empty space where a wheelchair-using patron would be sitting.
tommyrot - Apr 09, 2012 9:25:56 am PDT #19376 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. ita ! is me.
Gris - Apr 09, 2012 9:28:07 am PDT #19377 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I don't like the shaky-cam, both because it makes me feel a little sick AND I think it's lazy film-making. Used sporadically, I don't hate it, but relying on it is a huge mistake.
Not enough of one to make me dislike the movie, or really any movie that uses it, but enough of one to make me harumph with gusto.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 09, 2012 10:48:03 am PDT #19378 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Shaky-cam doesn't bother me except in an aesthetic sense, but then again I can normally handle being slung about like a sack of potatoes on a roller coaster without discomfort (the exception being when I combined being barely recovered from food poisoning with a big lunch and riding the Mission to Mars flight simulator at Epcot shortly after eating - not a wisely chosen pairing of activities).
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2012 11:17:27 am PDT #19379 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
IO9 has a piece at the [link] that discusses the muttation design, including some discarded concept art that's supposed to look like the fallen tributes (although I totally fail to see how--and maybe that's part of the reason for the omission). Apparently not everyone knew they were going to take the tack they did.
Jessica - Apr 09, 2012 11:34:51 am PDT #19380 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Here's the thing about calling shaky-cam "documentary style" filmmaking - documentarians have Steadicam too!!! Shaky-cam isn't documentary style, it's just lazy.
Tom Scola - Apr 10, 2012 10:44:27 am PDT #19381 of 30000
hwæt